I have most of the games I play a lot downloaded as standalone games without menus.I have one game that I can't find a standalone version of, so I have to go through the menu stuff to load it.The menus are cool, but sometimes they get in the way...All of my standalone games are hacked cracked and packed, so I assumr they were part of a menu once.

Hunter (Activision).There are already two standalone versions, but one doesn't work and the other has no trainer.I have a version which has a full trainer with loads of cheats to choose from, and that's the version I like to play.

I can live with it if it's a nontrivial thing to do, but I'd prefer to have a copy without the menu if it's reasonably easy to do.

It's weird in that there isn't a separate hunter.prg or hunter.tos on the disk.The other games on the menu have obvious program files, but Hunter does not.

The Cynix one has a trainer option but each time I tried that file via STEem it would bomb out with 3 bombs. Tried it also from the full disk image (Cynix #1) and it does the same. Could be my STEem configuration though I did drop it down from 4Mb to 1Mb.

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OK so I took a very quick look at the disk through GEM. It has a file called HUNTER.PP on it. I copied it to a blank disk, renamed it to HUNTER.PRG and put it in an AUTO folder. On reboot it starts to run and I get the trainer options. However it crashes just after loading the main game.

I think PP must have set something in RAM from their menu which the game is expecting to find (probably some copy protection workaround).

PP=Pompey Pirates, I guess. Usually, cracks are protected by adding some irregular trap at start or like, so will not work if starter prg (with cracker signo, messages) is removed, changed. If game starts at all, it is most likely not that something missing from RAM - but from crack, or needs specific config. And of course, not always is that crack is bad - it may be damaged during transfers, storages. We will see such threads certainly again.

Famous Schrodinger's cat hypothetical experiment says that cat is dead or alive until we open box and see condition of poor animal, which deserved better logic. Cat is always in some certain state - regardless from is observer able or not to see what the state is.